Amazon to Adapt ‘Good Omens’ for Prime Release

Amazon Studios have this week announced that they will be adapting Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s comic novel Good Omens for a Prime Video release in 2018. The planned six-episode mini series will be co-produced with the BBC and see Gaiman take on an executive producer role. Neither Gaiman nor Pratchett (sadly deceased since 2015) are strangers to adaptations of their work with Stardust (Gaiman) and Hogfather (Pratchett), among others, having made the leap from the pages in the past. Indeed, Good Omens, arguably Neil Gaiman’s most famous novel, is currently being adapted by Starz for release later this year.

Bearing the subtitle ‘The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch’, Good Omens is a comic take on the coming of the end of days. All is going to plan for the coming Apocalypse and armies on both sides are massing for battle. Unfortunately for the the forces of heaven and hell, Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon have become quite content with their earthly living arrangements and aren’t too anxious to see the whole thing kick off. What follows is a wonderfully witty tale of strange women, missing Antichrists and general mayhem that will hopefully traverse to the screen well.

Of the production Neil Gaiman had this to say;

Almost 30 years ago, Terry Pratchett and I wrote the funniest novel we could about the end of the world, populated with angels and demons, not to mention an 11-year old antichrist, witchfinders and the four horsepeople of the Apocalypse. It became many people’s favourite book. Three decades later, it’s going to make it to the screen. I can’t think of anyone we’d rather make it with than BBC Studios, and I just wish Sir Terry were alive to see it.